John Paul McCann

John Paul McCann (25 August 1879 to 24 August 1952) was an Irish polo player who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Together with Percy O'Reilly, John Hardress Lloyd and Auston Rotheram he was a member of the Ireland team that won a silver medal, and the Ireland team was part of the Great Britain Olympic team. The English Wikipedia article on him is a short stub that gives only these facts, so this entry keeps to them. Polo is a mounted team sport in which riders strike a ball with long-handled mallets, and the 1908 tournament, in which the Irish side took second place, was one of the few times it formed part of the Games.